Morning in the Streets (1959)

Directed by

Denis Mitchell

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

35 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary captures morning life in working-class streets of a northern English city. It shows people and their surroundings, with voices sharing their thoughts and views on life.

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What happens

Morning in the Streets is a 1959 BBC television documentary directed by Denis Mitchell and Roy Harris. It was produced by the BBC Northern Film Unit and was first broadcast on 25 March 1959. The documentary was described simply as "an impression of life and opinion in the back streets of a northern city in the morning". It is an impressionistic slice-of-life documentary, featuring footage of working-class people and street scenes, accompanied by a montage soundtrack of voices conveying opinions and philosophies on life. The film was researched by a writer on Liverpool life and dialect, Frank Shaw. The music was specially composed by Thomas Henderson and Liverpool songwriter Stan Kelly, and featured the harmonica of classical musician Tommy Reilly. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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